Teen History Poems

In the '60's I thought we were headed to the Stoned Age
    Psychedelics were huge, PCP was everywhere
  Yet by the...

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Normalise the teen
Seen slutty on your screen 
Insta app’s the pimp

Youth attracted person 
Sounds like feral yap
Bright colour’s brand sin

By history’s stone judge
The Black Cap...

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Eric Clapton (born March 30, 1945, in Ripley, Surrey, England)
British guitarist who influenced rock.
Later became a famous singer-songwriter.
Clapton was born to a teen mom and...

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About time,
I've paid my dues I've crossed the line,
This moment I thought would never come,
Is in my grasp, the deed now done.

Don't get me wrong,...

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I watched “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” last night - we’re going to be reading Truman Capote’s book after the break and I wanted to start thinking...

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As a young teen I sadly confess, I dreamt of becoming an actress.
A class assignment drew me to Warner's  in D.C., where I
brushed up...

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I saw one journey end and another begin
I saw my world changed and in a spin 

I saw another end - the end of the...

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Mississippi 1954 

"Don’t you bring that no good 
      So and so 'round here. 
If you bring him to ma...

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The Long House

Precontact	            Our sky is incense
       ...

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As I thought upon the coming of February, the month designated as Black History Month, I began to think upon potential ancestors of long long...

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the road to revolution (no, REALLY)
Do you guys remember your history classes by any chance?
I was browsing through my AP World history class book,
in my...

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My country, 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of tyranny,
Of thee I sing;
Land where my hackers live,
Land where my loyalty is,
Land where the bankers give
Let Russia ring!

Let...

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Four hang ups, no messages left.
Bereft of those moments near the phone,
a lonely heart could only hope it was you
who called while I was required...

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Dawn, Angie, Glori and Dale —
model citizens led the way
to their stage, all the rage
for seconds in time.

cool of Dawn Dolls —
icons of the seventies,
for...

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ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL AND THE TRAMP

Thousands, perhaps millions of wily, desperate tramps have always been,
But this one far away across the seas was an unusual...

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